Newspaper-clip



(N'o Model.)

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NEWSPAPER CLIP. No. 346,904. Patented Aug. 10, 1886.

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WITNESSES l in@ 5M 9L PETERSA Phala-lilhogrnpher. Washnglon. D. C.

NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWSPAPER=CLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part o f Letters Patent No. 346,904, dated August 10, 1886. Application filed January 1S, 1886. Serial No.19.05-;. (No mcdeLl .To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS FIX and AL- BERT S. FIX, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Newspaper- Clips, of which the following is a specification. v

This improvement relates more particularly to newspaper-clips intended .to be secured to the doors or gates of residences.

The object of the invention is to secure the paper until purposely released from the same, and by a combination of a signal bell or gong therewith to give an alarm when the paper is placed in the clip, thus insuring the receipt of the same.

Itis well known that a clip serves to protect the newsboy, to save the paper from dirt and destruction and loss by high winds, but

. uncombined with an alarm does not fully se cure the subscriber, but supplemented by an alarm, as in our device, it leaves no void unlled.

The drawings herewith show very fully the construction of our improvement, like letters of reference indicating like parts.

Figure 1 is a full front elevation of the newspaper-clip as applied to a door. Fig. 2 represents the application of the clip to one side of a door, with the bell or gong on the opposite side, and connected therewith, the door in section; Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectional elevation of the clip detached from the door.

The clip may be constructed of any suitable metal adapted to the position it is to occupy, and they may be made more or less ornamental, as desired. As usually constructed, we form a base-piece, A, with an anvil,

A', head A2, recessed spring-seat A3, ears A,

and securing ears A5. A cap-piece, B, closes the upper portion of the recess by a screw, B. A tlat spring, E, of suitable metal and strength, is placed with its convex face upward in the recess, and has a re-enforce spiral spring, F, beneath the same. An arm, C, having a cam end, C', is fulcrumed in the ears A4, has a padded head, C2, coincident with the anvil A', and a pulling-knob, D, secured 5o to the same by a screw, D', the cam end C resting snug against the crown of the spring E, which presses the pad rmly against the anvil, and securely holds whatever may be placed between the same. Screws in the ears 5 5 A5 secure the clip to the door. To combine the alarm therewith, a link, C3, is secured to the arm C, near the edge of the anvil, which is perforated for a connecting wire or chain attachment, which, passing through the door 6c and gong-block, passes over a pulley, G, provided upon the same, and from thence to the usual trip, H, of the gong H.

The newsboy, in pulling out the knob D, draws the arm C, and head C2 with it, which 65 operates the connection to the gong and gives an alarm.

Ve are aware that we are not the rst to invent newspaper-clips for doors. (See Patents to Orull, March 28, 1871, No. 113,026, 7o and Bingamen,September 9,1884,No. 304,692.) XVe are aware also that it has been customary to place a letter box upon the inside of the door, in combination with an alarm-bell, by a connection between it and the outer cover to the slot cut through the door for the same, (see Patent No. 195,598, September 25, 1877, to Costello B. Geeng) but the alarm in this case is given after the letters, Sr/c., are safely deposited in the box, whereas our alarm is 8o connectedwith the clip by a mere gimlethole put through the door, not observable after the clip is removed, and gives notice that the door must be opened to secure the paper. Owners of houses can avail themselves of the 8 5 letter-box convenience, but tenants at will dare not cut slots through the doors and dis figure them, as would be the case when the tenant leaves for other quarters, taking the letter-box and outer cover-plate along.

Having described our device, shown its use and advantages,we desire to secure by Letters Patent the following claim thereon:

As an improved article of manufacture, a newspaperclip adapted to be secured to a 93 door or other suitable support, consisting,

essentially, of the following elements a basenewspapers, &c., substantially as and for the xo piece, A, provided with an anvil, A', and purpose set forth.

head Af, with a recess-seat for a flat spring THOMAS FIX between the Same, a spring, E, with a re-enhis' 5 force spiral spring, F, beneath it, a cap-piece, ALBERT S. FIX.

B, an arm, C, with cam end C', head C, pull- 'i mafkknob D, and seeuringears A5, arm G, ful- Whtnesses:V crmned in ears A4, all combined and arranged JAMES R. KENNEY,

lto secure between the head C2 and anvil A', WM. S. RIBBLE. 

